Mobile Commoning as a Route to Climate Mobility Justice

April 15th, 9:00 am | Hall C1 (Tower C)

Mimi Sheller is Dean of The Global School and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. An internationally recognised scholar in mobility studies and a leading theorist of mobility justice, she is the founder of the journal Mobilities and editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies. She is currently the principal investigator of two projects funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as part of the Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network. Among her extensive body of work, notable publications include Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (2018), Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (2020), and Advanced Introduction to Mobilities (2021).

The Citizen and the Vagabond: On Speed

April 17th, 11:00 am | Hall B2 (Tower B)

Tim Cresswell is Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on the role of space, place and mobility in social and cultural life. He has PhDs in Geography (Wisconsin) and Creative Writing (Royal Holloway, University of London). Cresswell is also a widely published poet with three collections – most recently Plastiglomerate (2020). Recent academic books include: Maxwell Street: Thinking and Writing Place (2019), Moving Towards Transition (co-authored, 2021), and Muybridge and Mobility (co-authored, 2022). The Citizen and the Vagabond: The Politics of Mobility is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in 2026.